The fine-mouthed oil lamp spits light, reflecting the majestic and solemn face of the lamp bearer, and casts a dark shadow under the wall, there is a huge map of Zhongzhou hanging on the wall, the lamp holder moves the lamp inch by inch, and with the movement of the light, all parts of Zhongzhou are like stars in the sky are smeared one by one.

"Master Yan."

A calm voice sounded outside the house, and the person with the lamp said without looking back, "Come in." ”

The man outside the house walked in, walked up to the lampbearer, and looked with him at the countless dots on the map, each of which represented an important city or a vassal state.

The map was a few years old, the tub was dim and yellow, the corners were worn out, and some areas were even more blurred, and the man who had just come in was holding his shoulders and moving his gaze carelessly, and suddenly, his eyes froze at a certain area on the map, and his brow furrowed.

"Yu Lie, now there is good news and bad news, do you want to listen to that first?" The lamp bearer said with a pen in his right hand as he sketched and scribbled on the map.

"Bad news."

Yu Lie subconsciously replied, he had changed out of his heavy armor, wearing a brand new deep coat that Wei Yingxue had sewn for him, a woman should be pretty, a filial piety, a man should be pretty, a soap, Wei Yingxue's hands were very skillful, and he sewed this black deep coat as if it was tailor-made, making his figure more upright, and very handsome and elegant.

When the lantern bearer heard his answer, he glanced at him and said with a smile: "Three years ago, Firefly couldn't even sew a neck scarf with a neck guard, but now this craft is even admired by her aunt, but you haven't changed, and you still like to hear bad news first." ”

"When you hear the bad news and then the worse news, you won't be too disappointed." Yu Lie looked at the sketches on the map, and each of them symbolized the disappearance of a vassal state, or the thousands of people living under the dark clouds of war in that land.

"Okay, let's start with the bad news."

The shaking light reflects a long river on the map, which cuts off the entire Zhongzhou land from west to east, and circles a few small dots on the north bank of the big river, with a line of small characters: Jingtai 23rd spring, Southern Chu marches northward, destroys the Three Kingdoms, and swallows the Three Cities.

This is bad news, but it is not the bad news that the lamp bearer wants to say now, he lifted the lamp in his hand, held it up to the top, illuminated a small eye-catching black dot, and said in a deep voice: "The king's health is getting worse, so he urgently summoned me to the palace to discuss the matter of defeating Chu, and he vomited blood." ”

Yu Lie raised his eyebrows, but did not answer.

The person who bears the lamp is Yan Qixie, and he continued: "Three months ago, Yonggong once again convened a meeting of the princes' alliance and ordered the princes of the world to attack Chu. However, the general trend of the world is exactly like this, the roots and branches are intertwined, and the slightest change in any one place may lead to a huge change in the entire situation. If the monarch loses, the Yan Kingdom will fall into turmoil, and the matter of Yonggong's attack on Chu will definitely be complicated. ”

Yan Jun is already sixty and eight, I don't know why, but he has not been able to establish a son, if Yan Jun dies suddenly, then Yan Guo will inevitably fall into turmoil, the length of this time can not be controlled, maybe a year and a half, or longer.

"That's really bad news." Yu Lie said in a deep voice.

"Let's talk about the good news."

Yan Ke rubbed his eyebrows, under the dim light, his expression looked a little tired, and at this time, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were piled together, and the nasolabial folds on his lips were also deeper, which made people can't help but think that he was also old, a full forty-seven years old.

The male general is old, but it is difficult to remove the armor, and he has been fighting for the Yan Kingdom all year round, if one day he suddenly dies, then what will be the future of the Yan Kingdom? Yu Lie didn't dare to think about it anymore and fell silent.

Yan Qiye patted Yu Lie's shoulder, carried a lamp to shine on the Yongqi border, and said: "Yonggong wants to attack Chu, and the Marquis of Qi also wants to attack Chu, but the purpose is the same, but the soldiers are divided into two roads, one is the Yongyan Alliance from north to south, from the middle to the middle, and the other is the Qilu Alliance, from the east to the west, into the north of the river. Although they fought separately, Yonggong and the Marquis of Qi had an alliance, and the two countries were friendly during the war against Chu and were not allowed to fight each other. ”

"Qi and Lu?"

The scar on Yu Lie's face moved slightly, Qi and Lu are on the same coast of the East China Sea, and the two countries are good and bad, but in general, the powerful Qi State has always wanted to swallow the old and conservative Lu State, and the Lu State has always regarded the Qi State as a top priority, so it is closely connected with the Yong State, how can the two vassal states that are so far from each other come together?

Yan Qixie knew what he was thinking, and the general's face sank: "This is where the variables lie, as we all know, the secretary of Qi State, Xi Shuye, has always advocated Valu self-improvement and the power of the East China Sea to dominate Zhongzhou, but the general of Qi State, Le Ning, is not, he advocates weak Yonghua Chu and dominates the world." ”

A hegemony, a hegemony, although only a word difference, but the difference is thousands of miles, simply put, the means of hegemony is mild, it takes a long time, it may be a generation, or it may be several generations of gradual progress to gradually achieve, and the means of hegemony are radical, like taking millet from the fire, if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, is the country of Qi really so impatient?

Suddenly, Yu Lie remembered the white-clothed Qige and what he said about the unification of the world, Yu Lie's heart moved, and said: "Le Ning is a native of Lu State, and the alliance between Lu State and Qi State is afraid that it is not in Chu, but in Yong." ”

Yan looked at Yu Lie approvingly, nodded and said: "In the past years, in the first war of the country, Le Ning failed to achieve the goal of dominating the world, but instead consumed the national strength of the Qi country. In my opinion, there will be twists and turns in the affairs of the war, and this variable is very likely to come from here. Pointing to a key position among the many princes and small states on the long Yongqi border, he continued: "This is the Yu State and the Xun State, which belong to the Yongqi camp, and most of the wars between the Yongqi and Qi countries started from this. ”

Yu Lie followed his finger and saw that the geographical location of the two small vassal states was extremely delicate, respectively on the north and south sides of the Hedong Corridor, and was blocked by a large mountain from east to west, and there was only a narrow line between the two countries, and this slender line bent around, pointing to the Yongdu of the Yong State at one end, and extending to the capital of the Qi State at the other end, Jimo.

Yan Qiye pointed to a small dot in the middle of the narrow line and said: "This is the fortress of Xunri, an important fortress to control the east, west, north and south, it originally belonged to Xun, and then belonged to Yu, and now, it belongs to King Jingtai, and after the Chu is destroyed, it will be incorporated into the Yu Kingdom." As he spoke, he smiled meaningfully.

Yu Lie also smiled, thinking that this was the idea of the old King Jingtai, in order to make the two countries concentrate on fighting Chu, he asked Yonggong for this fortress to show that he was not biased against each other.

"In order to ensure the peace of this place, King Jingtai has sent the general Feng Qingye to lead three thousand Chao Ge Qing cavalry to the Shunri Fortress, but the three thousand Chao Ge Qing Cavalry have not been out of the Chao Ge City for hundreds of years, I think, most of them will be lost in this long road, and may never be able to go to the Shunri Fortress, and King Jingtai also has this concern, so he sent a letter to the king, hoping that the king will send a separate army, disguised as the Chao Ge Qing cavalry to go together."

Yan Qixi's long words came down, Yu Lie couldn't help nodding, the general and King Jingtai guessed right, from Chaoge City to the fortress of Xunri is less than three thousand miles away, but there are dozens of small princes densely distributed, these small princes belong to Yong, three percent belong to Qi, and forty percent are each system, and there are many are attacking each other, not to mention these complicated situations, just along the way, the wind and light night represent King Jingtai, and the princes from all walks of life will naturally feast, under this stay, I'm afraid that I won't be able to go to the Xunri Fortress for two years, and the Xunri Fortress is not far from Zhongli City in the Yan Kingdom.

Yu Lie asked, "Has the date of the war been set?" ”

Yan said evilly: "It has been roughly decided, the countries have already transferred troops, and they will wait until spring and summer, and start a war in autumn." As he spoke, he stared at Yu Lie and smiled, "Why don't you ask me why I said this is good news?" ”

Yu Lie cracked his mouth and smiled: "If Master Yan says that it is good news, it must be good news." ”

"Come, drink!"

Yan Qievil walked to the back of the case, put the lamp and pen down, lifted the wine jar on the case, poured a bowl of wine full, picked it up and dried it in one sip, wiped the wine stains on the corner of his mouth, and praised: "Regardless of spring, autumn, winter and summer, all countries and thousands of wines, drink and drink, or the knife is the most worthy of my heart." ”

Yu Lie walked over, sat opposite him, honestly and unceremoniously poured himself a bowl, picked it up and drank it.

Yan Qixie waited for him to drink a bowl of wine, looked at him fixedly, and said: "The Beidi Rebellion took five years, although the Di people were finally expelled from the glacier, but the national strength of my Yan country was also too depleted. There is no room for loss, and I will go there in person, and it will be difficult to get rid of it. I have recommended you to the king as the commander of the other army. ”

Yu Lie was shocked when he heard this, he was just a baron, although he had meritorious deeds, but his shallow qualifications were there, and the people who led the army couldn't talk about him, originally, after some analysis by Yan Qixi, he also expected that he would most likely go to the fortress of Xunri, but he didn't expect that he would be the main general.

"What? The famous Yanjing Tiger is scared? Yan looked at Yu Lie for a long time and pursed his mouth.

Yu Lie smiled: "Yu Lie is afraid, but how dare a disciple of Master Yan be afraid?" Just ......"

"It's just that if you go, Hotaru will definitely blame me. However, although the fortress is in the rear, it has a great stake, and the king has promised that as long as there is no mistake, or until the Chao Geqing rider comes, after the handover, you can return to Yanjing, and remember your great achievement, from a male to a son, just around the corner. My eldest husband, standing between heaven and earth, throwing his head and spilling blood, is exactly the duty of a man, Yu Lie. ”

Yan said evilly, his eyes flashed with incomparable light, as a child of a soldier, he would rather die on the battlefield than die on the couch, the majestic general is like a majestic mountain beam, as if he will never know tiredness.

Yu Lie drank another bowl of wine, slammed the bowl on the table, let the surging fire rush between his chest and throat, turned his head to look at the map that was no longer clear, stared at a familiar position, and said in a deep voice: "It's indeed good news, when will you leave?" ”

"In a month, you'll have to be one step ahead."